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Genuine Negro Jig | 
| Artist: Carolina Chocolate Drops
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 178
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.2 x 0.5
UPC: 075597983982
EAN: 0075597983982
ASIN: B002U33GQU
Release Date: February 16, 2010
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| Tracks:
| • | Peace Behind The Bridge | | • | Trouble In Your Mind | | • | Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine | | • | Hit 'Em Up Style | | • | Cornbread And Butterbeans | | • | Snowden's Jig [Genuine Negro Jig] | | • | Why Don't You Do Right? | | • | Cindy Gal | | • | Kissin' And Cussin' | | • | Sandy Boys | | • | Reynadine | | • | Trampled Rose |
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Product Description
The Carolina Chocolate Drops are as much about revelation as revival. On its Nonesuch debut, Genuine Negro Jig, the trio brings exuberance, humor, virtuosity and an infectious
acoustic groove to its exploration of a near-forgotten brand of banjo-driven string-band music originating more than a century ago in the foothills of North Carolina, the Piedmont region where band members Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson were raised. In this rural area, musicians, both black and white, once shared and swapped tunes. Over the decades, the importance of the African-American role in string-band music was diminished, its sound and significance
co-opted by minstrel shows and segregated by record labels. CCD -- under the tutelage of nonagenarian fiddler player Joe Thompson, one of the last surviving Piedmont musicians - have reclaimed the old-time songs, making them vital and fresh for right now, reasserting in the process the African roots of the banjo.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops have won over crowds at the Newport Folk Festival, on such National Public Radio shows as Mountain Stage and A Prairie Home Companion, and on tours through Europe. Denzel Washington personally selected the trio to appear in his critically acclaimed 2007 directorial effort, The Great Debaters. In a review of a CCD Kennedy Center performance, The Washington Post declared, 'Their set was anything but academic... these instrument-swapping residents of Durham, N.C., kept the audience active with speedy strumming, jug-blowing and percussion via carved
hand-held bones and foot-banging syncopation.' The Boston Globe concurred: 'The acoustic trio - banjo, fiddle, guitar - managed the minor miracle of evoking a sepia- drenched era of mountain music... Giddens, Robinson and Dom Flemons, all multi- instrumentalists and vocalists, conveyed their deep knowledge with a sense of reverence and studied antiquity- including their simple, era-appropriate costumes - and a contagious, abundant joy.'
After two self-recorded independent releases, CCD chose to work with producer Joe Henry on Genuine Negro Jig. As with his production on Allen Toussaint's The Bright Mississippi, Henry emphasizes simplicity, clarity, interaction; with its striking lack of studio frills, the emphasis is on the spirit of these performances, which are often as intense as they are exhilarating.
Uptempo numbers like live-show favorite 'Cornbread and Butterbeans' and 'Sandy Boys' are immediate standouts, though slow-burning, moody tracks like 'Kissin' and Cussin' and 'Snowden's Jig (Genuine Negro Jig)' prove to be
downright haunting. The versatile Giddens performs the Celtic-style balladry of 'Reynadine' acapella; she's equally convincing taking lead on a brilliant recasting of the 2001 Blu Cantrell R&B-dance hit, 'Hit Em Up Style' Genuine Negro Jig starts out with the specific but winds up with the universal; this is music that has literally traveled continents and
centuries to achieve a brand new relevance, a shared history still in the making.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 27
 Happy Purchase July 16, 2010
Tucker (USA)
An excellent entry for the music world. I am on a quest to explore "old-time" music and string bands. And this is a welcome addition. Great version of "Why Don't You Do Right?" and love "Trampled Rose." Such a great alternative to the music today. These three have talent.
Great trio! Excellent album! July 15, 2010
Jennifer L. Kearns (USA)
This cd will have you hummin' along and slappin' your knee. A great feel good album! I heard an interview on Fresh Air with Terri Gross, loved what I heard and ordered it. Glad I did.
a treat for all ears June 30, 2010
Marie S. Martinelli
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Folk music is so enduring because each generation discovers it, adds to it, makes it their own and gives it back to the rest of us. This fine group of young musicians has certainly done that in this cd. They feature tunes from different times and traditions,and even have some they've written themselves. The instrumentals are tight, the vocals clear, engaging, funny , sad and poignant. A great choice for old folkies like me or for anyone wondering what this folk music is all about. I guarantee these tunes will be in your mind after one listening! A true winner.
genuine negro jig May 31, 2010
Edward J. Gibbons Sr. (w barnstable, ma USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
received an e-mail from a local performing arts group that they were coming purchased the CD then the tickets loved the CD and their performance last nite was far beyond expectation, they received many standing ovations don't miss them if they are in your area
Thank God for The New Music Historians May 19, 2010
Robert Geismar (NY USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Taj Mahal must be shaking in his boots! How did he miss this great music? The Taj is such an historian and he went way south to the Caribbean and Africa to find his soul. Heck, it was right in the "Carolinas". The Carolina Chocolate Drops have opened up a new sector of folk, "carolina grass" and it was here in the USA all the time.
Bob Geismar
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